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I don't know if you've ever been to Europe, but the number of topless beaches are low and you won't see women walking around without a top on the street. It's n
by mattmanser 7y ago
I don't know if you've ever been to Europe, but the number of topless beaches are low and you won't see women walking around without a top on the street. It's not taboo-less, nipples are still sexual.
Nipples seems a pretty silly thing to start focusing on when he clearly said they weren't interested in adult content.
- fluroblue 7y agoThe man likes a good nipple. What ya gonna do.
- joeyprr 7y agoI'm from Europe and I've visited quite a few countries in Europe, and to me it seems like it's pretty normal to be topless on _any_ beach... Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Greece...
- pluma 7y agoAdd Belgium to the list. And East Germany. EDIT: Generally I'd say in Europe while women's breasts are sexualised, they're not considered sexually explicit. The US is exceptionally prudish in comparison and for well-known historical reasons, too.
- gpderetta 7y agoItaly as well.
- dspillett 7y agoUK. Not so much so here, so it certainly isn't universal. Though we don't usually have the weather for it anyway!
- Asooka 7y agoUK is not Europe and shares a lot of values with puritanical USA. Culturally you're not really part of the mainland.
- sushid 7y agoSounds like a classic case of No True Scotsman to me.
- jyrkesh 7y agoYou'd have to explain more, given that he listed Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Greece, and others have listed more below. All of them true Scotsman where topless is totally a fair thing to see on any beach. Hell, I had a French ex who took her top off to tan when visiting the States and had to be told by friends that it wasn't an acceptable thing to do.
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- ttsda 7y agoPortuguese, and can confirm it's absolutely normal in every single beach.
- tpush 7y agoThere literally are beaches/sections of beaches in Germany where you have to be nude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freikörperkultur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freikörperkultur
- elliekelly 7y agoI have been to Europe. And I’ve taken my bathing suit top off on several beaches there. In my experience they don’t really have “topless beaches” so much as they just have beaches. If you re-read my comment you’ll see that my point of starting with nipples is precisely because they aren’t the adult content that Automattic is understandably interested in avoiding. Why are your nipples nbd while mine are adult content? That seems “pretty silly” if you ask me.